Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez joined the Global
Studies faculty in the Fall of 2004.
She did her undergraduate degree in English, with certificates in
African American Studies and Theater and Dance, at Princeton University,
and finished her doctorate in Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis
in Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley,
in May of 2004. Her research focuses on imperialism, militarism and
tourism in Hawaii and the Philippines, as well as transnational feminist
cultural studies, queer theory and ethnic studies. She is starting
a research project titled “Missionary Impositions,” which
looks into the intersections of contemporary mission studies and
tourism studies in the Asia Pacific through transnational cultures
of domesticity. Many of her Global Studies electives have been cross-listed
with Gender Studies (“Travel and Tourism: Critical Issues” and “Transnational
Cultures and Politics of Fashion”), and her spring 2006 seminar, “Transnational
Feminisms,” will be dual-listed. She has co-authored publications
on popular culture and cyberspace, and continues to do research in
those areas as well.
